This list is a work in progress -- but to name a few: - [January 6, 2021](https://doctorparadox.net/dagger-at-the-throat-of-america/): Insurrection at the Capitol - 2017: [[Unite the Right rally]] -- A white supremacist rally in Charlottesville, Virginia turns violent when a participant drives a car into a crowd of counter-protesters, killing one and injuring many others. - 2011: Arizona Representative Gabrielle Giffords is shot and wounded at a public event in Tucson, Arizona. Six people are killed and 13 others are injured. - 1995: The [[Oklahoma City bombing]], carried out by [right-wing](https://doctorparadox.net/tag/right-wing/) extremists [[Timothy McVeigh]] and Terry Nichols, kills 168 people and injures over 600 others. - November 3, 1979: [Greensboro Massacre](https://www.politico.com/magazine/story/2019/11/03/greensboro-massacre-white-nationalism-klan-229873/) - 1970: The Kent State shootings occur when National Guard troops fire on student protesters at Kent State University in Ohio, killing four and injuring nine. - 1968: [[civil rights]] leader Martin Luther King Jr. is assassinated in Memphis, Tennessee, and presidential candidate Robert F. Kennedy is assassinated in Los Angeles, California. - 1963: President [[John F. Kennedy (JFK)]] is assassinated by Lee Harvey Oswald in Dallas, Texas. - 1921: The [[Tulsa Race Massacre]] -- a devastating incident of racial violence in which white mobs destroyed the prosperous African American Greenwood District in Tulsa, Oklahoma, resulting in hundreds of deaths and the displacement of thousands of Black residents. - 1920: The Wall Street bombing kills 38 people and injures over 100 others in New York City. The perpetrators are never identified. - 1910-1920: The [[First Red Scare (1917-1920)]] period, marked by fears of communist infiltration and terrorism, leads to the arrest and deportation of thousands of suspected radicals and anarchists. - 1898: The [[Wilmington Coup]], in which a mob of white supremacists overthrew the local mixed-race government and installed all-white officials. This event marked the defining end of [[Reconstruction]] and the beginning of [[Jim Crow]]. - 1894: The Pullman Strike, a nationwide railroad strike over wages and working conditions, turns violent when the federal government sends troops to break it up. - 1871: The [[Ku Klux Klan (KKK)]] (KKK), a [white supremacist](https://doctorparadox.net/save-democracy/right-wing-ideologies/white-nationalist-beliefs/) group that seeks to intimidate and oppress African Americans, is founded in Tennessee. - 1865: President Abraham Lincoln is assassinated by John Wilkes Booth, a Southern sympathizer who opposed Lincoln's plans for Reconstruction. - 1861-1865: The American [[Civil War]], a conflict between the Union and Confederacy [over slavery](https://doctorparadox.net/gop-myths/was-the-civil-war-about-slavery/), results in the deaths of an estimated 620,000 soldiers and civilians. See also: [[nationalism]], [[white supremacy]], [[White Man's Burden]], [[prejudice]], [[hate crimes]]